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Márquez, Herón

Roberto Clemente: Baseball's Humanitarian Hero

112 pp. | Carolrhoda | January, 2005 | Library ISBN 1-57505-767-0 $27.93
(3) YA Trailblazer Biography series. This readable biography of one of baseball's greats discusses Clemente's humble childhood working in Puerto Rico's sugarcane fields and his transcendent major-league career, during which he endured racism as a black Latino and later became a philanthropist and civic organizer. Occasional sidebars offer helpful background information and entertaining anecdotes; black-and-white photos appear throughout. Reading list, timeline, websites. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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